Updates on mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

MZ Zhong, T Peng, ML Duarte, M Wang… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the United
States (US). Animal models, specifically mouse models have been developed to better …

Mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

M Yokoyama, H Kobayashi, L Tatsumi… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss
and personality changes, eventually leading to dementia. The pathological hallmarks of AD …

Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer's disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques

JH Lee, DS Yang, CN Goulbourne, E Im… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Autophagy is markedly impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we reveal unique
autophagy dysregulation within neurons in five AD mouse models in vivo and identify its …

The clinical promise of biomarkers of synapse damage or loss in Alzheimer's disease

M Colom-Cadena, T Spires-Jones, H Zetterberg… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Synapse damage and loss are fundamental to the pathophysiology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and lead to reduced cognitive function. The goal of this review is to …

Mannan oligosaccharide attenuates cognitive and behavioral disorders in the 5xFAD Alzheimer's disease mouse model via regulating the gut microbiota-brain axis

Q Liu, Y **, Q Wang, J Liu, P Li, X Meng, K Liu… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by
cognitive deficits and psychiatric symptoms. The gut microbiota-brain axis plays a pivotal …

Alzheimer's disease: targeting the cholinergic system

TH Ferreira-Vieira, IM Guimaraes… - Current …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Acetylcholine (ACh) has a crucial role in the peripheral and central nervous systems. The
enzyme choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) is responsible for synthesizing ACh from acetyl …

The case for rejecting the amyloid cascade hypothesis

K Herrup - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a biologically complex neurodegenerative dementia. Nearly 20
years ago, with the combination of observations from biochemistry, neuropathology and …

TREM2 Variants in Alzheimer's Disease

R Guerreiro, A Wojtas, J Bras… - … England Journal of …, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Homozygous loss-of-function mutations in TREM2, encoding the triggering
receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 protein, have previously been associated with an …

Using mice to model Alzheimer's dementia: an overview of the clinical disease and the preclinical behavioral changes in 10 mouse models

SJ Webster, AD Bachstetter, PT Nelson… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The goal of this review is to discuss how behavioral tests in mice relate to the pathological
and neuropsychological features seen in human Alzheimer's disease (AD), and present a …

Targeting protein aggregation for the treatment of degenerative diseases

YS Eisele, C Monteiro, C Fearns… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
The aggregation of specific proteins is hypothesized to underlie several degenerative
diseases, which are collectively known as amyloid disorders. However, the mechanistic …